Dress shield



June 24, 1930. s,' Ac -1 1,765,725

DRESS SHIELD Filfid Jan. 4, 1928 Patented June 24, 1930 PATENT @Ff lfiE SIEGFRIED IMBACH, OF DRESDEN, GERIEANY DRESS SHIELD Application filed January 4, 1928, Serial No.

There are dress-shields permitting the passage-of air and containing several layers of absorbent stuff, which are placed either inside or outside or on both sides of a single layer of perforated waterproof material. Such dressshields permit sweat to pass through the openings in the waterproof material and thus to reach the lining to be protected.

On the other hand we know of dress-shields in which the inside layer of waterproof material attached to the coat-lining is not perforated. Such a dress-shield naturally does not permit the passage of sweat, but it hinders the passage of air and is thus unhygienic.

According to the present inventiomthe dress-shield comprisesin each part or sec tion at least two layers of perforated waterproof material with interposed layers of re ticulated webbing or similar material. A preferred embodiment of my invention is shown on the accompanying drawings in which Figure 1 is a front view, parts being broken away; and Figures 2 and 3 are sectional views along the lines AB, the former showing the several layers separated from each other before the single layers have been sewed together.

The dress-shield is made with two oppositely arranged branches or sections comprising an outer folded layer a of pervious ma terial which permits the passage of sweat. The covers or outer leaves formed by this folded layer a are fast dyed and matched with the coat and sleeve linings to which they are attached. Thus the cover on one side of a dress-shield for gentlemens clothes with white sleeve lining will be white while the cover on the other side will be dark to corre spond to the lining of the coat.

\Vithin the outer folded layer a is a folded layer 6 of india-rubber or other soft waterproof material which perforated and separated from another folded layer (Z of waterproof material by means of a reticulated t5 web or pervious layer 0, said layer d being similarly perforated but having the openings therein displaced with respect to the openings in layer Z). It will be understood that while the spacing layer 0 is preferably shown as a reticulated *eb for assuring the passage of 244,439, and in. Germany January 10, 1927.

air and preventing the two layers 6 and (Z from adhering together, other suitable spac ing means may be employed such, for example, as ribs formed on the waterproof layers. W hen the shield is applied, the layer (Z is placed next to the coat lining.

The eiiicacy of my improved dress-shield is based on the fact that the sweat evaporates in the interposed air pockets formed between the two layers (6) and ((Z) of waterproof material. By means of the openings in one of said layers being offset with respect to the openings in the other of said layers, the passage of sweat through the last layer (cl) is additionally and more effectively hindered and thus prevented from reaching the lining.

Any form and method of finishing said dress shields may be employed and said dress-shield may be made large enough to embrace the entire arm-hole.

What I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. An improved dress-shield composed of two sections, each section having at least two layers of waterproof material with perforations therein and having means for spacing said layers, said spacing means permitting the passage of air between and through said perforated layers.

2. A dress-shield composed of two sections, having in each section at least two perforated layers of waterproof material, a layer permitting the passage of air, said last mentioned layer placed between said two layers of waterproof material.

3. A dress shield comprising two sections, each of said sections including two layers of waterproof material each provided with ventilating perforations offset with respect to the ventilating perforations in the other, and means for spacing one of said perforated layers of waterproof material from the other, said spacing means being adapted to permit a passage of air through the intervening space between said waterproof layers and by way of the ventilating perforations therein.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature.

SIEGFRIED IMBACH. 

